Shalom E. Holtz is associate professor of Bible and chair of the Robert M. Beren Department of Jewish Studies at Yeshiva University. He is the author of Neo-Babylonian Court Procedure (Brill, 2009) and Neo Babylonian Trial Records (Society of Biblical Literature, 2014) and coeditor, with Ari Mermelstein, of The Divine Courtroom in Comparative Perspective (Brill, 2015).